safeMax = Character.MIN_VALUE;
      safeMin = Character.MAX_VALUE;
    }
    this.safeMin = safeMin;
    this.safeMax = safeMax;
  }

  /*
   * This is overridden to improve performance. Rough benchmarking shows that this almost doubles
   * the speed when processing strings that do not require any escaping.
   */
  @Override
  public final String escape(String s) {

[here](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/052445e04ce20fd747657e0198a1bcec2b6dff5b),
for an example.

See
[this commit](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/5f7f05a80aac9b01325a78ec3fcff0dbedb1cc23)
as a rough example of the steps below.

All the files referenced below are located in the same directory as this README,
unless indicated otherwise.

1) Add the new version to the `VERSIONS` variable inside

      this.safeMinChar = (char) safeMin;
      this.safeMaxChar = (char) Math.min(safeMax, Character.MIN_HIGH_SURROGATE - 1);
    }
  }

  /*
   * This is overridden to improve performance. Rough benchmarking shows that this almost doubles
   * the speed when processing strings that do not require any escaping.
   */
  @Override
  public final String escape(String s) {